Then I think back to Will Smith's movie "Independence Day".
The one where the crazy pilot flew his plane into the saucer's weapon and blew it up.
It's strange that the movie didn't seem to portray that act as "wrong". Rather the opposite.
There's a very troublesome attitude. We show very strong, high percentages in some country, a majority saying suicide bombing is justifiable in defense of Islam. Even in countries where it's not a majority or even a plurality, there's large percentages of the... of these populations which are sympathetic to this tactic -- a worrisome set of attitudes.But it's okay when depicted as a sacrifice made to destroy evil invaders who want to destroy you and pillage your resources?
The Turks not only don't want to do this -- they think it might be bad for Turkey if Saddam goes. Many of them see this as a war against an unfriendly Muslim state, not an objective... having the objective of making this a more peaceful region.Is this clear enough now?
We're going to make the region "peaceful" by bombing people who haven't attacked us.
No, I don't see any possible way that could be mis-understood by other inhabitants there.
Besides, we'll get the oil.
I agree with the other two columnists. We need to be helping the other nations in the mid-east rather than attacking the "bad" nations.
PS: [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2544599.stm#graph|Uzbekistan]